Emanuel Ruiz walks through his Amazon FBA private-label business, which does over $5M in revenue. He describes shipping directly from manufacturers in China and India to Amazon, and sometimes having suppliers send pallets to his home for manual labeling and packing. He's candid about the unglamorous realities of running an ecommerce business.
When it comes to content creation and business, people only glamorize the business and they don't tell you about mistakes or how lazy people actually are in business. So let me tell you, I have these pallets here and I sell on Amazon FBA and I do private label. I don't do wholesale, I don't do retail arbitrage. This year alone, I will do over $5 million in revenue. And usually what I like to do is I like to ship straight from my manufacturers in China or India and straight into Amazon's warehouse. But every now and then my supplier will say, hey, we just finished production run. We need to get this out of our warehouse. Please send us the shipping labels to Amazon. And instead of me taking 15 to 20 minutes of my time to go on the computer and create shipping labels to ship to Amazon, I just tell them it's all right, just ship it to my house. So once a month or maybe once every 2 months, I'm stuck going ahead and breaking down these pallets, putting UPS labels on them. And basically waiting for UPS to pick up these items just because I'm lazy in that point in time and I don't want to send those labels.
